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Simon Buxton
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Simon Buxton has worked with Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management since its earliest incarnations, starting with the product in early 1999 when Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management was known as Damgaard Axapta 1.5. Simon has been the technical lead on many highly challenging technical projects in countries all around the world. These projects included complex integrations with on-premises and external systems, ISV solutions, and many technically challenging customer solutions. Now working with Binary, he was part of a team that implemented the first Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management implementation as part of the Community Technical Preview (CTP) program, which led to the close working relationship with Microsoft that made this book possible
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Using a Chain of Command to initialize data

A Chain of Command can be used as an alternative method to copy the value from our new field to the report's data table. This is a preference for reports as it will usually avoid looking up the source table in the data-event. Sometimes data is inserted using a set-based operation, and could mean the event is never fired.

A Chain of Command is done by creating a final class that references the class it augments, using a class attribute. These classes do not extend the class; they augment it. This is explained further in the How this works section of this recipe.

Getting ready

We will continue with our reporting project, ConVMSSalesReports, in this recipe.

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Published in: Mar 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781838643812

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Simon Buxton

Simon Buxton has worked with Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management since its earliest incarnations, starting with the product in early 1999 when Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management was known as Damgaard Axapta 1.5. Simon has been the technical lead on many highly challenging technical projects in countries all around the world. These projects included complex integrations with on-premises and external systems, ISV solutions, and many technically challenging customer solutions. Now working with Binary, he was part of a team that implemented the first Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management implementation as part of the Community Technical Preview (CTP) program, which led to the close working relationship with Microsoft that made this book possible
Read more about Simon Buxton